Apps Will Get You Paid Early, for a Price

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Americans have become accustomed to summoning just about anything on demand, from groceries to car rides. Now it’s just as easy to get paid when you want.

As the coronavirus pandemic squeezes household budgets, workers and employers alike are increasingly turning to pay-advance apps with friendly-sounding names like Earnin, Dave, Brigit and Rain. They allow users, for a sometimes-optional fee, to request money ahead of payday. One even briefly offered a program for those waiting for slow-to-arrive jobless benefits.

And many customers see them as lifelines.

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Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Seattle startup Syndio and co-founder of Smartsheet, has been selected as a 2020-21 fellow for the Emerson Collective’s Dial Fellowship.

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Emerson Collective is a social change organization founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Launched in 2019, the Dial Fellowship is an invitation-only application and provides participants with communication tools, resources and a network to expand the reach of their work.

Founded in 2016, Syndio creates HR technology that helps companies maintain equal pay and eliminate disparities. The company in May announced a $7.5 million funding round, which included Emerson Collective as an investor.

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The Doctor Can Virtually See You Now

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With digital medicine, patients in rural and remote locations now enjoy much higher levels of medical attention 

By Justin Williams

Americans love change.  Except when it applies to their own lives.  The nation’s medical community feels the same way.  

There are, of course, innovations in healthcare happening all the time.  But for the most part, those innovations take place within the discipline of mainstream medicine, administered in a hands-on fashion at hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices, under provisions consistent with the arcane stipulations of health insurance policies, and in ways compatible with the extensive business ecosystem that supports providers of healthcare.  Changes which threaten to disrupt that comfortable pattern are deeply suspect.

But for an industry involving trillions of dollars a year, the attraction of new players into the lucrative healthcare market is easy to understand.  So it’s no surprise that some of the nation’s biggest and most technologically sophisticated companies are elbowing their way into different areas of medicine – particularly those that involve big data.  

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First Resonance Emerges from Stealth to Help Companies in Aerospace, Robotics, and Automotive Get Hardware to Market Faster and Cheaper

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Developed by Engineers from SpaceX, NASA and Lexus, First Resonance's Factory Automation System helps the next generation of hardware companies design, test, and manufacture breakthrough hardware technologies at scale

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- First Resonance, a Los Angeles-based start-up with a Factory Operating System that hardware engineers trust for speed, collaboration and traceability, today unveiled its ion platform. Already in use by cutting-edge startups including Phase Four, Joby Aviation and Iron Ox, ion is built to meet the needs of next generation hardware companies. ion replaces spreadsheets and outdated costly manufacturing and supply chain processes and tools with a platform that leverages machine learning, IoT and advanced data analytics to support hardware companies working in a more rapid and iterative way than companies from previous generations.

Based in LA, the First Resonance team is made up of former engineers from SpaceX, NASA, Lexus, and other leading aerospace and automotive manufacturers. After experiencing bottlenecks created by trying to design and manufacture modern hardware products using standard manufacturing processes, the team set out to build a modern factory operating system to help hardware companies design and deliver products with the speed and efficiency needed to move these massive industries forward. The company's ion Factory Operating System is addressing the needs of the manufacturing execution system market which is anticipated to grow to $14.9B by 2025. This figure is being rapidly accelerated given the massive shift in supply chains and manufacturing landscape brought on by COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions.

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